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  • The 85 year-old little boy in prison

    “What were your parents like?” I ask Doc. Asking an 85-year-old man about his parents starts your brain doing math. They’ve have been born over 105 years ago… “My mom, and I know everybody says this, but my mom really was the hardest-working, sweetest woman that ever walked God’s Earth. Raised four boys without a…

  • SO. MANY. FARTS.

    I cannot overstate the amount of farts here. It’s like a French department store of farts, breathtaking in scope, variety, and airiness. Mel Brooks would say tone it down were these sound effects. The walls of Jerico would topple from the trumpeting. Hot air balloons would shoot into space if they flew over this place.…

  • Pound, Oprah Winfrey’s Dream

    Pound, as he’s called, is big. Bigger. When you sit with him or stand next to him, it feels as if he was made for a world 50% bigger than we’re inhabiting. Even his voice is big. When he booms, “Hayy baby,” to his niece or wife on the phone, you don’t just hear it…

  • From moments of despair to moments of joy

    Some days you wake up in prison and some days you wake up IN prison. Today was one of those days where the steel bars feel a little colder and tighter in the morning. You think back to things destroyed, opportunities killed, relationships harmed or ended… you think of the stress, the loss, the folks…